Commercials - just stop!

jarvis · Mar 27, 2017

There's the commercials selling you junk food, followed by the commercials selling you drugs to treat the side effects of obesity, followed by commercials for class action lawsuits for the drugs you took for the obesity from eating the junk food. Put a bow on it with an ad for hospice and a funeral parlor.

I hear television drug commercials are illegal in many countries.

robn1 · Mar 27, 2017

Betamin said:
I was sitting at my computer one day, not really paying attention to the commercial for some drug that came on, and the string of side effects and warnings started. I suddenly stopped and turned to the screen when I heard the voice say "How blah blah blah works is not entirely known."

I half expected them to say "The active ingredient in blah blah blah was discovered in the center of a meteor, and consumed 3 scientists before it was subdued."

Do not taunt blah blah blah.

Zombie_61 · Mar 27, 2017

There's a semi-new commercial for a 2017 car that focuses on it's automatic braking system. A youngish couple is driving down a street when an accident happens in front of them, and the male driver is unable to stop before becoming part of the accident. Cut to the couple waking up in an emergency room, and the narrator says, "What if this didn't have to happen? What if you could go back? What if our car...could stop itself?"

What if you stop relying on the car to do everything for you and learn how to drive you ****ing idiot? :angry

J EM · Mar 27, 2017

Mountain Dew's "puppy monkey baby". The dumbest **** I've ever seen.

KFCs commercials, specifically their colonel. They've already gone through 3 actors in like a year.

Lear60man said:
1-800-cars4kids. I want to run them over with my donation.

I haven't seen that one in a while (hopefully never again), but "cars 4 kids". Ugh. AND they also say they take boats, rvs, and real estate donations!? :facepalm Wtf do those kids think they are?? Seems like a scam with such a deceptive name.

KojiroVance · Mar 27, 2017

robn1 said:
Do not taunt blah blah blah.

“Caution: do not get this medication wet, and never ever take this medication after midnight.”

Snowtrooper · Mar 27, 2017

J EM said:
KFCs commercials, specifically their colonel. They've already gone through 3 actors in like a year.

The colonel from the old KFC commercials used to be a distinguished country gentleman. Now he's just some weirdo.

MooCriket · Mar 27, 2017

Gotta love late night commercials. From "I've fallen and can't get up" to see your Doctor if you experience an erection lasting more than 4 hrs.

HEMADEW · Mar 28, 2017

I think it's crazy the amount of prescription drug adds in the States. Your doctor is supposed to recommend medication, not the other way around, no?

JLeezy23 · Mar 28, 2017

Snowtrooper said:
The colonel from the old KFC commercials used to be a distinguished country gentleman. Now he's just some weirdo.

Norm MacDonald obviously KNEW how terrible those commericals were, seemed like an SNL skit to the fullest, I think they have a gag where there are Colnel imposters or something, must be an inside joke because I'm clueless on why they trade actors every few months

KojiroVance · Mar 28, 2017

HEMADEW said:
I think it's crazy the amount of prescription drug adds in the States. Your doctor is supposed to recommend medication, not the other way around, no?

That's at least partly what the tv advertising is meant to do. Get patients asking their doctors for certain name brand medications.

Axlotl · Mar 28, 2017

KojiroVance said:
That's at least partly what the tv advertising is meant to do. Get patients asking their doctors for certain name brand medications.

It has everything to do with some stupid bill passed through congress in the '90s that put the pharmaceutical companies firmly in bed with the insurance companies and relegated family doctors to the role of corporate shill. We had 2 family doctors then, and both quit the biz because they didn't feel right about letting an insurance company dictate to them how to treat their patients - often against their better judgement - just so some drug company could make bank.

Treadwell · Mar 28, 2017

The constantly changing Colonels is the joke. It's an intentional part of the campaign.

(Not that it's working....)

bwayne64 · Mar 28, 2017

This is why I so love my dvr. I can skip right past this nonsense. Even when I watch live tv, I'll go do something for an hour or two, rewind the show and then skip commercials again. I'm going to cancel my satellite service soon, and I'm going to have to figure out a dvr setup. I can't go back to the caveman tech of live ota tv. Yuck !

J EM · Mar 28, 2017

JLeezy23 said:
Norm MacDonald obviously KNEW how terrible those commericals were, seemed like an SNL skit to the fullest, I think they have a gag where there are Colnel imposters or something, must be an inside joke because I'm clueless on why they trade actors every few months

Norm MacDonald's weren't as bad as Darrel Hammond's before him. Hammond's colonel did this creepy ass laugh and was just quite disturbing overall. Anyway, that was revealed as a gag during the MacDonald months. He was supposed to bet their more serious, "genuine" colonel Sanders. But he got replaced by George Hamilton. lol

It's someone else now. Don't know who because I just don't pay attention anymore. KFC commercials come on and I just hear a slurred echo.

dbuck · Mar 28, 2017

Lear60man said:
1-800-cars4kids. I want to run them over with my donation.

This one. Our local news radio station plays this about once an hour or so. It is a guarantee for me the change the station before three notes of that commercial play. It would b faster than those three notes but my arm can't move that quickly anymore without pulling a muscle or something.

gunnerk19 · Mar 28, 2017

"Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt"

Umm, it's a soccer mom in a minivan driving a single block between signal lights at 10 miles per hour. How friggin' dangerous do they think that is?

Zombie_61 · Mar 28, 2017

KojiroVance said:
That's at least partly what the tv advertising is meant to do. Get patients asking their doctors for certain name brand medications.

And I'm certain some of those doctors are getting paid off by pharmaceutical companies by prescribing the drugs they make.

On the other hand, I've asked a few doctors how they feel about those drug commercials and every one of them said they hated them and wish they'd be banned. They create problems for the honest doctors because they now have to deal with even more hypochondriac patients who are stupid enough to believe what the commercial says instead of what their doctor says. "But Doctor, I swear I have every one of those symptoms they listed on the commercial. I need to take that drug!" "Listen Mrs. Williams, it's absolutely impossible for you to have testicular cancer no matter what the commercial says."

Malphas · Mar 29, 2017

I work at a casino and they have radio commercials talking about the fun you can have, all the restaurants, the resort. Then at the end it gives a number for help with gambling addiction. Just seems kinda funny to me.

Treadwell · Mar 29, 2017

Radio ads that have car horns or sirens in them. Dude, I'm in MY CAR.

CT1138 · Mar 29, 2017

Malphas said:
I work at a casino and they have radio commercials talking about the fun you can have, all the restaurants, the resort. Then at the end it gives a number for help with gambling addiction. Just seems kinda funny to me.

Always thought that was funny too. It'd be like if beer commercials had the number to AA at the end of them instead of "Please drink responsibly." Nobody else I know seems to find the irony of the acknowledgement of an already existing problem with a product in an advertisement for that product as funny as I. Imagine Hasbro commercials that advertise their toys then blatantly point out their their toys will inevitably break from handling at the end of them.

Commercials - just stop!

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